Andrew Lownie
Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York
Thursday October 23, 4:15 - 5:15PM
Standard Tickets £12.50
Friends of WFL Tickets £10


Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson have attracted a great deal of scandal over the years, manifested in endless newsprint, books and interviews.
Can there be anything we don’t know? There certainly can!
Andrew Lownie’s revelatory biography, the first ever joint work about the couple, is packed full of extraordinary revelations following the pair through childhood, courtship, marriage, divorce and ‘careers’ and the links with Jeffrey Epstein, which began earlier, continued longer and were much more frequent than reported.
Still deeply entwined and living in the same house, this eye-watering biography has been meticulously researched with numerous FOI requests as well as interviews with over 100 well informed sources who have never spoken before.
From the couple’s charitable activities through to his reputation as a military hero; from extravagant lifestyles to a desperate need for the trappings of being royal, we see a couple who are peculiarly unable to connect with the real world.
A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Andrew Lownie is the author of the top ten Sunday Times bestsellers The Mountbattens and Traitor King and several best-selling biographies.
‘A revealing story about ‘the happiest divorced couple in the world’.
More than just a story of personal failings or royal scandal, Entitled examines the broader context of a monarchy navigating public accountability and the pressures of modernity. The result is a compelling and nuanced portrait of a flawed couple whose lives have defined, and defied, the expectations of royalty in the 21st century, and whose actions continue to resonate far beyond the palace walls.